"Hokum" was a term from the '20s used to describe music full of double entendres dealing with sex, drinking and drugs, and thus no respectable person from the period would be caught dead listening to it! This compilation includes 20 tracks from The Hokum Boys, Banjo Joe and Blind Blake, featuring Hokum Blues; Gambler's Blues; Selling That Stuff; Jonestown Blues; He's in the Jailhouse Now, and more.
"Hokum" was a term from the '20s used to describe music full of double entendres dealing with sex, drinking and drugs, and thus no respectable person from the period would be caught dead listening to it! This compilation includes 20 tracks from The Hokum Boys, Banjo Joe and Blind Blake, featuring Hokum Blues; Gambler's Blues; Selling That Stuff; Jonestown Blues; He's in the Jailhouse Now, and more.
